POINT PLEASANT BEACH — The Florence High football team knew all the numbers Point Pleasant Beach was putting up.

Undefeated record, over 40 points per game, three rushers with over 700 yards.

It didn’t matter to Joe Frappolli and his Flashes.

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Doug MacArthur kicked a 33-yard field goal with 5:18 remaining and Florence survived a final drive, advancing to the Central Jersey Group I final with a 17-14 victory Friday night at Donald T. Fioretti Field.

“Mid-third quarter, coach said, ‘you’re going to kick the game winner. You’re going to Disneyworld,’” MacArthur said. “Kickers are usually like an afterthought but most football games come down to one or two points, so it’s great that I could come through.”

Tighe went down with a leg injury late in the third quarter and was carted off. He did not return.

“That’s a team that has ran through everybody,” said the veteran coach Frappolli. “They didn’t have a rushing touchdown today. They had to go to the pass because we bottle everything up. It was a tenacious effort.”

The Flashes pitched a second-half shutout.

“Out of all the teams they play, we were the hardest hitters they played,” said defensive back Kenyari Moore. “We’re tough, we’re a family. We want it all. Every down, we go 100 percent for everything. We just wanted to win. We needed that win.”

Florence still had to survive one nervy final drive.

Beach quarterback Jake Fioretti (8 for 21, 123 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT) hit Kyle Samaritano on a 70-yard screen pass that would have set the Gulls up at the Flashes five but an illegal block in the back nullified the gain.

After an offensive pass interference, Beach faced a 4th-and-16 but Fioretti connected for 19 yards to Samaritano.

That set up frantic finish.

With the ball at the Florence 18 and 12 seconds to go, Fioretti scrambled to his right but Moore hauled him down at the 10-yard line as time expired.

“I just picked up momentum and I was a little nervous,” said Moore, who also had an interception. “I was glad when I looked up and that clock said zero.”

The Gulls scored on their opening possession when Fioretti connected with Andre Cochran on a 16-yard pass.

Curtis Thompson (14 for 39) powered in from two yards out on 4th-and-goal, and Florence took the lead on MacArthur’s extra point.

Fioretti tossed a 26-yard touchdown to Nick Fiore with 5:22 left in the first half and the two-point conversion gave Beach a 14-7 lead at half.

But the momentum-swinging play came late in the third quarter.

Eric Champan intercepted Fioretti, returning it 33 yards for a score.

“I heard the crowd cheering,” Champan said. “I just knew I had to take it to the house.”

The Flashes face top-seeded Shore in the Central Jersey Group I final — a game they lost to Asbury Park last season.

“Last year we got bullied by Asbury Park,” MacArthur said, “so this year we’re hopefully going to go in there and kick some butt.”